Overview
- Multiple witnesses say former Bears linebacker Otis Wilson got into a physical scuffle with a female security worker outside a bank of elevators after the Bears’ win on Sunday.
- Witnesses told reporters that Wilson was told he could not use an elevator reserved for media, boarded it anyway, and was then led off before the confrontation escalated and others restrained him.
- Observers reported a softball-size hole in the wall created during the initial scuffle and said several people in different uniforms subdued Wilson at the scene.
- The Sun-Times saw Wilson later bent at the waist and wheeled onto an elevator and taken downstairs conscious and without visible injuries, according to on-scene reporting.
- Wilson is a 69-year-old member of the 1985 Bears and runs a charity; stadiums commonly reserve certain elevators for media access, and officials from the Bears and Chicago Police had not issued public comments as outlets sought clarification.